Wye

Wye in Kent has a long and distinguished history: Mesolithic hunters camped by the River Stour, Neolithic farmers
cleared the forest and Bronze-age warriors were buried on the Downs. A Romano-British country estate on the road to Canterbury
gave place to a royal residence of Kentish kings, a regional centre with jurisdiction over a large part of Kent. William the
Conqueror gave the Manor of Wye to Battle Abbey in 1067 and Domesday records a thriving community. The mediaeval village, with
its minster church, ancient grammar school, timbered houses and inns, is still very much in evidence.